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Rise NY
Updated January 6, 2026 –– An amusement park with the soul of a museum, Rise NY’s marquee attraction is a ride that makes you feel like you’re swooping over the city. It takes place in…
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Updated January 11, 2026 — At its peak usage during World War II, when it employed some 70,000 men and women, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was the biggest industrial complex in U.S.…
Jackie Robinson Museum
Updated January 4, 2026 –– As much about the Civil Rights Movement as it is about baseball, this two-room museum takes a detailed, clear-eyed look at the life of a great American hero…
Museum of Broadway
Updated January 6, 2026 — When a Broadway show needs new cast members, it puts an ad in Playbill, the long-running theater industry publication. The Museum of Broadway did the same…
10 Greek Street
Sometimes, restaurants get it so right—from friendly and knowledgeable staff to unfussy surroundings to pure, clean, well-made food—that you wonder why they can’t all be this way. The…
Morris-Jumel Mansion
Note: The mansion is currently closed to visitors. Visit the website before heading over. As we went to press in early 2026 there was no reopening date posted. The oldest house in…
St. Paul’s Chapel
Updated January 4, 2026— Built in 1766, this is not only the oldest church in the city, it’s the only public space to be in continuous use since the Colonial era. The design of the…
Central Park Information Centers
Updated Aug 23, 2026——The Information Center in the Dairy, is located midpark in a 19th-century-style building overlooking Wollman Rink at about 65th Street, to get a good park map and…
Basilica de la Sagrada Familia
Architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) was a profoundly religious man, and from 1912 forward he made the design of this soaring basilica his life’s work. If it is not the grandest church…
Centro de Interpretación de las Ciudades Medievales
Undergoing massive reorganization, this museum is closed at least through 2026.Since so much of Zamora remains medieval, it was a logical spot to open this center for the study of…
Ellis Island
Updated January 4, 2026 -- The epicenter of the largest migration in human history, Ellis Island was in near-continuous use from 1892 to 1954 as the point-of-entry processing center…
Museum of Chinese in America
Updated January 6, 2026 – The story of the Chinese immigrant experience in the U.S. is wholly different from that of any other ethnic group that came here. Arguably, these Chinese…
Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Updated January 4, 2026—It used to be an emotionally draining experience to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which deals in explicit fashion with the Holocaust. But thanks to a…
National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center
Updated January 4, 2026—Housed in the magnificent Customs House, designed by architect Cass Gilbert, this museum is a sister institution to the one in Washington, D.C., though it was…
Skyscraper Museum
Updated January 4, 2026---Don’t dismiss this small museum: It’s far more interesting than one would expect. An architecturally innovative space in and of itself (notice how the shiny…
Staten Island Ferry
Updated January 4, 2026—Most visitors—and even some New Yorkers—don’t know that the Staten Island Ferry makes its own daily excursion within Instagram distance of the Statue of…
The Tenement Museum
Updated January 4, 2026––At first glance, this museum looks like just many brownstone building on this Lower East Side block . . . and that's exactly the point. The first-ever National…
Chrysler Building
Updated January 6, 2026. In the Chrysler Building we see the roaring-twenties version of what Alan Greenspan called “irrational exuberance”—a last burst of corporate headquarter…
Empire State Building
Updated January 6, 2026 -- There’s no better introduction to New York than a visit to the Empire State Building. The apex of the New York skyline, both literally (at 102 stories and…
Grand Central Terminal
Updated January 6, 2026 -- In ancient Roman times, the entrances to great cities were framed with monumental arches, meant to awe all who passed through. When Grand Central Station was…
The Morgan Library & Museum
Updated January 6, 2026 -- Famed Canadian scientist George Mercer Dawson once wrote that a great library contained “the diary of the human race.” With that definition, very few…
New York Public Library
Updated January 7, 2026 -- Many art historians consider this to be the finest Beaux Arts building in the United States. It certainly is one of the grandest, completed in 1911 at a cost…
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Updated January 7, 2026 — The largest Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States, St. Pat’s is also the seat of the Archdiocese of New York. Designed by James Renwick, begun in…
United Nations
Updated January 7, 2026 -- It’s this seven-block stretch of international territory that makes New York City the capital of the world. No, really. It’s become fashionable of late in…
Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
Updated January 6, 2026 -- How’s this for an all-star lineup? Not only does the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum display the Space Shuttle Intrepid, it’s got the world’s only…